Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Why everyone stopped reading." video.

That "whole language learning" is insane. Idiotic thinking. No, kids do not "naturally" read. It's a SKILL. It takes PRACTICE and DISCIPLINE. You can't just suddenly spell correctly, or be able to read. Thank the gods I went to schools that believed in the kind of training that got me reading voraciously, and I've never stopped. I'm flabbergasted at how utterly stupid kids are these days about language, ideas, the world. And it's all because they don't read. It's no wonder our world is falling apart when no one actually KNOWS anything anymore.
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When I gave my nephew a copy of "The Hobbit", my sister protested that he wouldn't be able to read it because it wasn't "at his level". He was TEN YEARS OLD. Exactly the age the book was written for! I was flabbergasted. It's so depressing how reading is falling away, and how parents are actually encouraging this attitude that kids can't read. They don't WANT to read because they're being told they CAN'T.
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There's a very simple solution to all those stupid toys that yell for your attention: TURN THEM OFF. You're not being forced to have those things yelling at you. It's YOUR choice to be distracted. Get rid of what's distracting you. TURN. THEM. OFF.
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@oneoflokis Yeah, he did. He would come over to my house and read it here. Now and then he'd ask me to explain something, but he was certainly able to read it. Kids will rise to the level of expectations, so long as those expectations aren't unreasonable. :)
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@SFDestiny It's a term that's become a thing in the last 15 years or so. It refers to kids' books that have are long enough to be split into chapters. "Little House on the Prairie" as opposed to "Where the Wild Things Are."
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@CordeliaAurora Well, seems like no one ever brings it up. Nowhere in this video does he ever even mention turning the damn things off. It's like y'all think they're growing off your bodies or something. Don't blame me if you're so dam addicted that you can't stand even a second without your little drug toys.
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@CordeliaAurora Well, no one ever seems to think of it. This video doesn't mention turning them off even once. Y'all act as if the dam things grow out of your body.
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@JoeKing69 See, what's sad is that a book a week used to be unremarkable. Most readers could pull that off. I used to read that much, and I didn't consider myself a fast reader. I knew a lot of people who could read faster than that, and did. It's why so many people had lots of books in their homes, and why libraries were so full of books whereas now they hardly have any in comparison.
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@BirdieBlrrrd Um, sitting still and reading all day never hurt anyone, dude. Just because your hyperactive ass can't stay in one spot for more than three minutes doesn't mean calm and concentration are somehow unhealthy.
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